Code Coverage - Salesforce Developer Podcast

Episode 49 - Back After Technical Difficulties

Still not dead. Getting damned close to episode 50, might actually see that prior to 2025. In this episode we chat about Steven's adventures into AWS and React, Salesforce as a platform, and a few other odds and ends. I honestly don't know if anyone ever reads this but I failed to make any notes while recording and don't want to listen all the way through because I'm busying trying to make Google Cloud functions function. Stay safe, stay well, do good things. Lacey (and that other g...

Episode 48 - Approximately a Salesforce Podcast

I would write some show notes, but time is tight, hence this is late. We DO talk about Salesforce a bit, with some quick comments on Bob (??) and... something else. Also F1, because Steven likes racing cars now.

Episode 47 - 98% Salesforce Content

We broke some world records or something and recorded again. This time we actually do talk about Salesforce for the whole show. Well, most of it. Some. Some of it. We definitely talk about Salesforce.  

Episode 46 or 71 or Something

A whole lot of waffle (what else would you expect) with the occasional mention of Salesforce.

Episode 45 — Season 2 or Something

It's a new highly anticipated episode of what might be the world's most irregular and/or infrequent podcast, with more waffles than ever. In this episode we talk about: Zoom, Neal Stephenson, the ATO and security scares Matt overthinking things and forgetting his Salesforce basics (i.e. query selectivity in triggers) Formula One 10x developers Working out when to upgrade your tools Accenture's SF Power Kit for DX Testing Motorbikes, cars and servicing You can find Accenture's...

Episode 43 — The Brisbane Time Glitch

In this episode we're coming to you live from last year, where we're recording at Down Under Dreaming (yes, with a 'g'): Brisbane Edition. In this episode we talk more Salesforce than usual in front of a real audience, and talk to both Emily Hey and Doug Christ who was visiting from the US.

Episode 44 — Did We Miss Something?

Against all odds, it's an episode of Code Coverage. Topics discussed include: * Audio problems, not knowing we were actually having some (doh) * A brief tour or some of the features from Spring '19 * Salesforce and devops, or not * The end of a an era Aura * Lightning Web Components and their likely impact * New flow builder * The latest release of OS/2

Episode 42 — The Guilt

We really do mean to publish more often. Promise. We even line up times and and everything.  It's us again, talking somewhat about Salesforce, but with a few (ok, many) inevitable tangents thrown in. Some of the topics covered:   * Forcelandia and Dreamforce * Being a male ally * IDEs and Salesforce (again!) * Cars and the software that runs them

Episode 41 - Version 3dot14 Beta

Another year passes, another episode gets release. Well it feels like that anyway. This took a week or so to publish after recording because our tracks got out of sync somehow. It sounds like my track (Matt) has been sped up slightly, with a few glitches pulling them back in time on occasion. So, apologies for that. Topics discussed in this episode: Some actual code that Steven wrote My washing machine Dealing with release bugs Mobile Operating Systems and virtual assistants CRUD, F...

Episode 40 — The Grittier Gritty Re-reboot

Lo and behold, we recorded again. It's almost becoming a habit. Once again you're stuck with myself and Steven rabbiting on about all sorts, including: Using bookmarks in your browser (bleeding edge stuff here) Salesforce (some new cloud thing) Deployment antics and packages How to break production environments Trailhead, DX and Git - the new learning curve Lightning experience performance Steven's ambitions to be Eminem, certifications and badges Where our listeners (you are ...

Episode 39 — The Gritty Reboot

We're back, and rambling more than ever. We chat about many things including the Spring release, IDEs and The Welkin Suite, computer keyboards and phones.  I don't think we talk about JavaScript.

Episode 38 — Jarrod Hunt Bags Developers

In this episode of Code Coverage Steven is off on a bit of a jolly so I'm joined by Jarrod Hunt, we discuss: The upcoming Down Under Dreaming Conference in Sydney Teaching code concepts to admins: what's useful for them to know The role of BAs sitting between clients and developers What developers could do better from a BA's point of view There's a few surprising (at least to me) lessons for developers in here, and it's interesting to see that some of the same things developers look ...

Episode 37 — Almost Missed It

More rambling! A discussion of various topics, some are even related to Salesforce. In particular we cover:   Curtailing Twitter usage Rob Plays - C64 Game Reviews from Rob Caporetto (if you like these please do subscribe!) Salesforce DX - some initial thoughts Steven finally writes some Lightning Components Waiting for Platform Event handling paradigms Wishing for a larger runtime A quick discussion on Salesforce books, with the two classics: Advanced Apex Programming by D...

Episode 36 — There Is Potential Here...

Episiode 35 — ...Or Not

We're back again! Plans are afoot to make this more regular once again. But for now we've gone from Summer to Fall/Autumn in Australia, so here's a bunch of Chatter about the Summer '17 release.    

Episode 34 — Back In the Saddle

We're back! Maybe for more than a few weeks too. In this episode we drivel on about old computers, Lightning Experience, Locker Service and Spring '17.    

Episode 33 — Scott Wells author of Illuminated Cloud

In this episode of Code Coverage we talk to Scott Wells, the author of the Illumined Cloud IDE for Salesforce. Illuminated cloud is an alternative IDE built on ItelliJ, and sports many features that make life far easier for developers on the platform. Topics we discuss include:   How Scott got started building Illuminated Cloud The feature set of Illuminated Cloud How he implemented the debugger Weirdness with APIs on the platform Dreamforce!   Illuminated Cloud sessions at Dre...

Episode 32 — Simon Goodyear on Life, The Universe and Everything

In this episode we're joined by Simon Goodyear, for a chat covering many aspects of developing on the platform. We got a bit carried away and it got a little long, but Simon has very interesting insights on all manner of topics, including: Supporting customers when you develop a product Drinking beer and starting businesses Dynamics! External Objects and OData Lightning development on a large scale Platform limits and innovation Fun and games with managed packages The choice o...

Episode 31 — What Happened There?

So we accidentally had another hiatus. This was entirely unintentional and we've talked plenty about recording, it's just that sometimes life (and work) happens.  We're back... again... and planning to keep up some momentum this time. Steven wrote some code and a tester found some bugs A novel use of reports to do calculations akin to a roll-up summary Matt found a quirk with SOQL's DAY_IN_WEEK() function Swatch Internet Time Various tools we use:  Illuminated Cloud! The IDE Sale...

Episode 30 — Dan Appleman on Salesforce Development Over The Years, PluralSight and Lightning

Note: some of my audio and pronounciation goes funky towards the end of this episode. I suffered some technical difficulties that meant I was hearing myself echo at full volume with approximately half a second of delay, I think I know exactly what this feels like now - Lacey In this episode we chat with the amazingly productive Dan Appleman (@DanAppleman); if you don't recognise that name then you can't have been around the Salesforce development community for very long! Dan makes some exce...

Episode 29 - Cal Smith on Salesforce StackExchange, Air Conditioning Patents, and Lightning

In this episode we chat with Cal Smith (@CloudMech on Twitter). Cal has done many things over the years and has very interesting stories to tell, but he also goes above and beyond to teach others, and the evidence is clear to see on the StackExchange where he's known as crmprogdev. Some of the topics discussed include: How he got involved with the platform How he uses the Salesforce StackExchange and what benefits he thinks it offers Mechanical engineering relates to software development...

Episode 28 - Not Actually Dead

The two of us catching up on the gap, talking about the new year and Steven fills us in on Salesforce Shield.

Episode 27 (The Lost Episode): Kevin Boyle from Gearset and musings on Salesforce Deployments

Kevin Boyle https://twitter.com/kevfromireland from Gearset https://gearset.com/ joins us at .... (gulp) Dreamforce '15 to talk about Salesforce Deployments and his product as well as other things. Yes, this episode is a bit late.     You just won't believe the story about how this happened.  Would you believe Lions and Tigers and bears! Oh My! How about... the dog ate it? Or... would you believe I'm just really slack?        

Episode 26 - David Liu and sfdc99.com (Part 2)

Continuation of our conversation from Part 2, including 'Bring your Parents to work' day and Google's free food :)

Episode 26 - David Liu and sfdc99.com (Part 1)

One of our Dreamforce episodes.  A wide ranging conversation with David Liu about sfdc99, architecture, software development and working at Google.

Episode 25 - Dreamforce 2015 Special #1

The upcoming Apex Debugger, Flow & Process Builder.

Episode 24 - Daniel Ballinger on WSDL2Apex, Salesforce bugs, StackExchange and converting from C#

Salesforce MVP Daniel Ballinger talking about winning at StackExchange, the crazy bugs he's found in Salesforce, FuseIT's excellent WSDL2Apex replacement, converting from Salesforce to C# and a guide to installing a new stereo in a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer. Follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/FishOfPrey Read his blog: http://www.fishofprey.com/ See him on StackExchange: http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/102/daniel-ballinger Download the FuseIT SFDC Explorer: http://www.fuseit.co...

Episode 23 - Steven and Matt at the Pub

A guest cancelation due to injury results in a free ranging conversation at the pub between Steven and Matt on the following topics.   Continuous Integration Enterprise Patterns Mobile Development Useful Tools Chicken Parmigiana

Episode 22 - Eliot Harper and ET/Marketing Cloud Journey Builder

In this episode of Code Coverage we talk to Eliot Harper (@eliotharper), CTO at Digital Logic, a Marketing Services company based in Melbourne, Australia. Eliot describes himself as a customer journey practitioner and is author of Journey Builder Developer's Guide http://amzn.to/1a9gWNo; an in-depth book on customer journey integration with Salesforce Marketing Cloud.   Eliot orientates us to Journey Builder development, covering:   * A brief orientation to Salesforce Marketing Cloud * ...

Episode 21 - Chris Duarte on Trailhead

In this episode we talk to Chris Duarte about all things Trailhead, including a sneak peek at some of the upcoming content! There was a slight technical issue on Steven's end, but we left it in since it made us laugh.

Episode 20 - Peter Knolle on Lightning Components

Force.com MVP Peter Knolle (@PeterKnolle) talks in detail about Lightning Components, where they're used and how they're built.   This episode clocks in at 50 minutes, but it's all great content from Peter and we just couldn't cut any of it out.

Episode 19 - Abhinav Keswani on Heroku

Abhinav Keswani from Trineo takes us on a tour of Heroku, explaining what it is, using it with Saelsforce, structuring your apps, and how to move legacy systems to it.

Episode 18 - Kevin Poorman and the Apex 10 Commandments

Kevin (@codefriar) gives us a blow down of the 10, 11,  12 Commandments of Apex Development (We added a few).   This is a redux of his (And James Loghry's @dancinllama) presentation at Dreamforce '14:  http://youtu.be/T01lemqlJRU    

Episode 17 - Passing the Technical Architect Review Board with Andrew Manetakis and Ehsan Mahmoudi

This week its a special episode, a recorded conversation between three Certified Technical Architects from Cloud Sherpas,  its Steven and two of his team members Andrew Manetakis and Ehsan Mahmoudi. They discuss their reflections on the Technical Architect Review Board The emotional impact of undertaking the certification. Case study tips. Assessing your readiness and how to prepare yourself. Required experience you should have. Handling the hypothetical. The difference between being ...

Episode 16 - Kevin O'Hara on Open Source Development, NodeJS and nForce

In this episode of Code Coverage we hear from Kevin O'Hara on why he loves open source development. In particular we discuss what's coming up in nForce, what working on open source is like, and an exciting new developer tool that he's working on.

Episode 15 - Kevin Poorman on Ruby, ngForce and Trailhead

Returning to regular programming (pun intended) after the live episodes of Dreamforce, this week we talk to the unstoppable force that is Force.com MVP Kevin Poorman. We got to the end of this episode and still had plenty that we wanted to talk about, so we're planning to get him back on the show in the near future. After listening to this, we think you'll be wanting to hear more from Kevin too!

DF14 Special: Episode 14 - Samantha Ready and Lightning

It's Senior Developer Evangelist Samantha Ready the day after the her stint on the Developer Keynote stage giving us a deep dive into Lightning Components, what they are, how they are built and how its going to power the next generation of Salesforce's User Interface. We also touch on Lightning Connect and Heroku's Keynote announcements!

DF14 Special: Episode 13 - Adam Seligman and a quick recap of the Developer Keynote

Adam Seligman, Vice President of Developer Relations gives a quick recap of this years Developer Keynote. With special guest Matt Lacey :)

DF14 Special: Episode 12 Tom Patros and AngularJS

Red Argyle Managing Partner Tom Patros gives us the run down on AngularJS one of the hottest JavasScript frameworks for rich desktop and mobile applications.   Tom discusses the best ways to get  AngularJS and Salesforce working together and gives a background for those new to Angular to help them get started.

DF14 Special: Episode 11 - Angela Mahoney and Adam Daw on running a Developer User Group

Angela Mahoney (Portland Developer Group co-lead) and Adam Daw (Ottawa Developer Group co-lead) discuss what makes a successful Developer Group and some of the things they do to have successful meetings.

Episode 0 - Who are Steven and Matt and what do they have planned for #DF14

Its a mellow conversation between Steven and Matt about who they are, how they got into Salesforce and what they have planned for Dreamforce 2014!

Episode 10 - Gaurav Kheterpal and Mobile! Mobile! Mobile!

A deep dive into mobile development with Mobile Expert an Appcelerator Titan (MVP) Gaurav Kheterpal. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravkheterpal  @gauravkheterpal   Guarav reflects on his history in telecommunication development and mobile application development.   He discusses: Appcelerator Titanium http://www.appcelerator.com/ and Sencha Touch http://www.sencha.com/products/touch The best use cases for Native and Hybrid application development and cross platform frameworks. The fun...

Episode 9 - Mary Scotton on Diversity in Tech and Dreamforce Dev / Admin Zones!

This week its Mary Scotton  (@rockchick322004), Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com Mary joins us to discuss her Women in Tech  blogging series as well as the broader 'Diversity in Tech' landscape. We  also cover the new Admin Zone (Sharing space with the Dev Zone), how Admins and Developers can work together and what's in store for Dreamforce!

Episode 8 - Gary Breavington on OWASP and Platform Security

Gary Breavington is a Senior Technical Consultant at Extentor and joins us to discuss OWASP, and how some of their top ten vulnerabilities can and should be addressed by Salesforce1 developers.

Episode 7 - Boris Bachovski on the Advanced Developer Certification

Boris Bachovski is a Senior Salesforce.com Developer with Deloitte Australia, he joins us this week to discuss his impressions of the Advanced Developer Certification.  

Episode 6 - Josh Birk on Summer '14 Highlights

Josh Birk (@joshbirk)  is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com and so if you're listening to this podcast there's a great chance that you've already come across him in your internet adventures. He's recently started blogging at http://joshbirk.herokuapp.com on a variety of topics and also posts on the Salesfore Developers Blog. In this episode Josh talks to us about: His Background How he arrived at Salesforce via ModelMetrics Using Flex and developing the Flex REST toolkits Summer '...

Episode 5 - Daniel Hoechst with Continuous Integration, Unit Test approaches and Remote Objects

Danidel is a 3 times Salesforce MVP, avid Salesforce user, administrator, and developer. He  also helps lead the Salt Lake City area Salesforce User Group.  He blogs at http://www.verticalcoder.com/ tweets at https://twitter.com/dhoechst and codes at https://github.com/dhoechst     Topics covered How he learned Force.com and the importance of Twitter in the process.   Team Development  Continuous Integration with Drone.io and BitBucket. Tools for working with git - SourceTree Books...

Episode 4 - Carolina Ruiz - Force.com community building

Force.com MVP Carolina Ruiz (@CarolEnLaNube) http://codeandvogue.com/ talks about taking the Salesforce1 platform to University Students, starting a DUG and blogging in Spanish!

Episode 3 - Andrew Fawcett with Enterprise Patterns and the Tooling API

How Andrew got involved in Salesforces Enterprise Patterns (Gang of Four) and their applicability to Salesforce To Tooling API and what you can do with it.

Episode 2 - Reid Carlberg and the Internet of Things

Drones and how he integrated it them with Salesforce1 Dreamforce and why he won't be flying drones at inside  How Reid got into Developer Evangelism. Node.js and why he likes it. Why Steven should buy Sublime Text and other favorite text editors The Internet of Things and how Salesforce can fit in. How you can get started with IoT programming at home. How to get started in Salesforce Development as a novice or experienced developer. Polyglot programming on the platform. What makes ...